Mark Goddard Quotes

It's a good thing a DUI's job security.

Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

Scandals have impacted many politicians' careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.

Good laws derive from evil habits.

… moral ideas are not fixed. The attitude of public opinion towards slavery was completely changed in twenty or thirty years.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.

I've been blacklisted in Hollywood.

People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.

It is a hugely embarrassing situation to find myself in, I'm a professional driver and to be caught speeding and to have my licence taken away for speeding, it would have an effect on my reputation.